‘Greedy’ hitmaker Tate McRae ‘can’t wait’ for PH concert

Riding the wave of success of her smash hit, “Greedy,” Canadian pop star Tate McRae is set to perform in Asia for the first time.

Launched in support of her sophomore album of the same title, her ongoing world tour, “Think Later,” kicked off in Europe this month and will head to North America, before making a four-country Asian run, which includes Japan, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines.

Presented by Live Nation Philippines (LNPH), the upcoming Manila stop will be held on Nov. 4 at the New Frontier Theater in Quezon City. Members of the LNPH website will have presale access on April 29, from 10 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. General sale starts April 30 at 12 p.m.

“My first time in Asia! I’m so excited to announce that I will be coming to see you guys on the ‘Think Later’ world tour. So crazy. I cannot wait. Love you all,” said the 20-year-old singer-songwriter.

Tate first gained prominence at the age of 13 for being the first Canadian finalist in the American talent search “So You Think You Can Dance.” She started releasing music in 2017, but it wasn’t until the 2020 single “You Broke Me First” from her second EP, “Too Young to Be Sad,” that she achieved considerable success.

Her debut album “I Used to Think I Could Fly,” spawned the hits “She’s All I Wanna Be” and “Feel Like Shit.” And with “Think Later” (2023), Tate scored her highest-charting album in the United States, peaking at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Peaking at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 chart and amassing over 1.1 billion streams on Spotify alone, “Greedy”—a “female empowerment” pop-dance bop—catapulted Tate to international fame.

‘Pop’s bright young hopes’

“The last five months of my life have just been very chaotic and busy. But you know, so exciting … Some of my biggest dreams ever. So it has been a very fun process,” she said in an interview with Paper magazine last March.

Described by The Independent as “pop’s bright young hopes,” Tate—with her strong vocals and even more impressive dancing skills—brings to mind the all-around idols of the early 2000s.

As such, fans can expect a show that highlights her songwriting and dancing in equal measures.

“I feel like the songwriter and the dancer are two different entities. It’s fun to be able to put them together and see what we can do creatively on this tour to showcase the more subtle moments and also the more pop-dancing moments,” Tate said, adding that combining the artistic and physical aspects of her craft required a “learning curve.”

“As a singer, you approach things differently than how you approach things as a dancer. Honestly, I’ve been figuring out how to do both at the same time and having a bunch of dancers around me for the first time,” she said. INQ